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you lucky dog all i get are the first trys. That is some nice work!!

they would be cool framed and hung on the wall.

great looking work my friend!! cant wait to buy his first cd.

thats pretty cool indeed!

lol if i had an extra 12 k to spend I would be setting in an ice hut drinking hot toddies and jigging for walleyes and buyin my leather goods already made.

you print them out and make sure the 1/2" squares the pattern is drawn on are 1/2" . that will take some resizing I'm sure.

I'll bet you can, cant wait to see it !!

search function is your friend.

funny thing yesterday i went over to a customers house to pick up some work. His wife showed me her quilting sewing machine over $12, 000 bucks she has into it and its just her hobby. doesn't sell just makes and gives away but man its awesome. just program the thing and it sews, it even counts the stitches, all she does is adjust her quilt. Any pic any design. She uses her regular machine for the front piece but this bugger for the quilting of the complete piece. i admire quilters for the amount of sewing they accomplish, my granny made them by hand back in the 70,s and 80s still using only a treadle singer her dad bought her as a young woman. You know when I can afford a machine, if i ever can, better than my Chinese patcher, i will surely get it and use it and love it just like everyone else, heck i love my patcher and my old singer slantomatic. But on one hand it seems kind of anti climatic sometimes i mean a guy spend hours hand making, hand tooling a project then in the end drop the hand sewing and pull out the old machine. In the end there is no right or wrong way only the way each of us wants to do it or in my case can afford to do it lol. On the other hand and honestly I would use one if i had one unless i had a customer who wanted different. I'm not a top shelf guy my tooling work isn't good enough and will never be at my age I'm past having the time to gain the experience.

your work is definitely top notch stuff. I don't mind hand sewing its kind of relaxing. plus i can do it out in the back yard in the summer or just about anywhere.

Bingo. Someone has to make the stuff on the top shelf.

Dang man that is some work there, you got your basket weave down pat. What leather?

If you sold it and got what you wanted for it then yes it was worth your time. If you want to make more faster and charge less then buy a machine.

Nice !! and it only cost 14 cents. Man i love your logic Bro!!

you mean it costs me 160 bucks just to get a good nights sleep? lol. Lets say 1500 for a machine how many belts to pay it off plus the time sewing. Lets say you charge 20 bucks for your shorter amount of time sewing with a machine, what do you charge for the machine itself, lectricity? His 20 bucks an hour is all profit. Plus in some folks opinion yes it is worth more, the question is can you sell your belts for what you want if so then there is no issue.

very cool effect! I like that .

that's some good steel my friend, I would have done the same.

that and some fresh butter mmmm bet its about gone by now lol.

oh yea that looks great man!! Lets see er done up. wow that was quick lol. that is cool as heck.

great job of it !!! A little info for you, the hidden tang type blades are made for that leather handle the typical /historical way to secure it to the handle is to peen the end of the tang down over your pommel which would have had a slot cut in it. The original US army Kabar is probably the best modern example of that attachment method. However many hidden tang knives are made exactly as you have done it with a threaded pommel. i have seen and made both types.

i had a 68 jeep cj5 but sold it last year, to small for my family and the engine needed rebuilt which was way to expensive for me. I have a 91 Chevy suburban i use now 6" lift 35 "tires 10,000 lb winch on the front and chains for all fours, that baby goes everywhere lol the dents attest to that.

When i open a can o worms I go fishin!!! man i wanna go fishin! but the water is still to hard.

and well worth it!! those look great.

your work always impresses me. I'm sure she will love it.